Addressing Implicit Bias for Healthcare Providers

Addressing Implicit Bias for Healthcare Providers

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to prepare the DNP-prepared nurse leader to guide social justice reform by understanding cognitive bias, recognizing implicit bias, and mitigating bias in your personal and professional life as well as in the DNP practicum project, which is being simulated in NR703.

Click here to begin the course: Addressing Implicit Bias: A Primer for Healthcare Providers

Instructions

1. The Week 5 assignment is comprised of completing the “Addressing Implicit Bias: A Primer for Healthcare Providers” and uploading the completion certificate on the assignment guidelines page.
2. The assignment is valued at 200 points and is an all-or-nothing assignment.
3. The points are awarded when the certificate is uploaded to the submit assignment tab.
4. The course is comprised of the following modules and takes about 2 hours on average to complete.

1. 1. Pre-Test
   2. Bias
   3. Types of Cognitive Bias
   4. Implicit Bias Through a Historical Lens
   5. Implicit Bias Scenario One
   6. Implicit Bias and Healthcare
   7. Implicit Bias Scenario Two
   8. Mitigating Bias
   9. References
   10. Post-Test
   11. Certificate

5. Upload the final certificate to the assignment submission tab for Week.
6. Click here to begin the course: Addressing Implicit Bias: A Primer for Healthcare Providers

Program Competencies

This assignment enables the student to meet the following program competencies:

2. Applies organizational and system leadership skills to affect systemic changes in corporate culture and to promote continuous improvement in clinical outcomes. (PO 6)

4. Appraises current information systems and technologies to improve health care. (POs 6, 7)

6. Creates a supportive organizational culture for flourishing collaborative teams to facilitate clinical disease prevention and promote population health at all system levels. (PO 8)

Course Outcomes

This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

2. Investigate the role of advanced nursing practice in innovation and transformation to propose solutions impacting healthcare systems. (PCs 2, 4; PO 6)
3. Differentiate attributes of effective leaders and followers in influencing healthcare. (PCs 2, 4; PO 6)

5. Formulate selected strategies for leadership and influence across healthcare systems. (PC 6; PO 8)